ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+27

Topic: Maps/ Our Community

Common Core Standards

RL.K.1-- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RL.K.2-- With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. RL.K.3-- With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. RF.K.Ia-- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. RF.K.3--c Read common high frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does,) SL.K.5-- Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail. L.K.Ia-- Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

Suggested Student Objectives
 * Listen for how to read with expression
 * Identify words that begin with /l/, /w/
 * Learn that the letter Ll stands for /l/
 * Write the letter Ll, Ww
 * Learn and use this week's high-frequency words: have, help
 * Use past, present, and future tense verbs that match subjects
 * Complete sentences to write a literature response
 * Learn that the letter Ww stands for /w/
 * Identify words that begin with /l/, /w/
 * Compare and contrast

Suggested Additional Readings

Mapping Penny's world by Loreen Leedy. Me on the Map by Joan Sweeny Madlenka by Peter Sis Kat's Maps by Jon Scieszka Russell and the Lost Treasure by Rob Scotton

Resource Links

Take A Trip BrainPopJr: Reading Maps Using Maps Ready Set Learn with Paz: Little Penguin's Treasure Map BookFlix: Scrambled States of America & Types of Maps BokFlix: We Need Directions Arthur Map Game

Activities 1. Map Making __ Materials __ __Description:__
 * crayons
 * pencils
 * blank paper
 * map key/ symbols:[[file:map key0001.pdf]]
 * After reading a map fiction book students will construct their own map using the key/symbols sheet

2 Map Labeling __Materials__ __Description__
 * scissors
 * glue
 * crayons
 * Worksheet:[[file:label map0002.pdf]]
 * Students will color, cut out the labels, and glue the labels to the approprate place.

Assessments 1. Students will be able to construct a map 2. Students will be able to label a map

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